SCRN Study Guide
-a lower cost option for those who cannot tolerate the intensity of the
therapeutic services offered by a stroke rehab program
✅✅
-"needed by a pt who does not require hospital acute care, but who
requires more intensive skilled nursing care" - -subacute rehab
-an acute care hospital that is focused on those patients who require a
stay of more than 25 days
-pts requiring this type of care need extended intensive medical and
✅✅
rehab care because they have multiple acute or chronic conditions -
-LTACH
-patient must have the tolerance for 3 hours of therapy a day for at least
5 days a week
-meet rehabilitative and functional needs (bowel/bladder management,
15% - ✅✅ -how much should blood pressure be lowered by in the first
24 hrs post stroke without TPA
, 24 hrs -✅✅ -how long after administration of tPA should
anticoagulants/antiplatelets be held?
250 mg
GI intolerance
neutropenia
✅✅
aplastic anemia
TTP - -Ticlopidine (Ticlid)
60 minutes -✅✅-goal for door to needle time
7-10 days - ✅✅-what is the time frame for natural fibrinolysis of a clot
after an aneurysm rupture
81-325 mg daily
✅✅-ASA
inhibits life of platelet (5-7 days)
GI bleed is most common complication -
✅✅
A brain structure that relays information from the cerebellum to the rest
of the brain, regulates conciousness - -pons
a catheter placed in one of the lateral ventricles of the brain to measure
✅✅
intracranial pressure and allow for drainage of fluid -
-ventriculostomy
✅✅
A condition in which a person with an illness seems unaware of the
existence of his or her illness. - -Anosognosia
A doughnut-shaped system of neural structures at the border of the
brainstem and cerebral hemispheres; associated with emotions such as
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fear and aggression and drives such as those for food and sex. -
-limbic system
a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system
responds to sensory and chemical stimuli
conducts impulses
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